I was offered a part in a movie

Can you even act?
I questioned him
and his response startled me.

I act every day*

It was such a simple, twisted answer
that I understood
better then he will ever know.
He opened my eyes to
such a brilliant wording for
how I too felt.
I looked at his mangled face-
stitched up where he tore it open,
above his right eye down across his nose.
I pondered how I could
know a person forever, yet
have them be a complete stranger to me.